The Air Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory is the preeminent aeronautical vehicle research and development organization in the world. Our core disciplines are aeronautical science, vehicle control technologies and structures for all atmospheric and transatmospheric vehicles. We develop technologies in these core disciplines from inception through transition to both current and future military aerospace vehicles. As we like to say at the Air Vehicles Directorate, "The next 100 years start Wright here!"
AFRL/RB Director
Douglas L. Bowers serves as Director of the Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory. As Director of the Air Vehicles Directorate, he leads the 195 million dollar science and technology development of air vehicles for the United States Air Force executed by 600 civilian, military and contractor personnel comprising technical competencies in aeronautical sciences, control sciences, and advanced structures. Read More
Summer Research Program
The Air Force Research Laboratory Air Vehicles Directorate is seeking faculty members and accompanying graduate students in technical fields to collaborate with research staff at Wright-Patterson AFB for the summer. Read more...
AFRL/RB Director 
Douglas L. Bowers serves as Director of the Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory. As Director of the Air Vehicles Directorate, he leads the 195 million dollar science and technology development of air vehicles for the United States Air Force executed by 600 civilian, military and contractor personnel comprising technical competencies in aeronautical sciences, control sciences, and advanced structures. 
